By Denise Smith
Autumn grew up in a small Italian
neighborhood with a large Italian family. With her
brother Bobby and sister Calie, home life was
sometimes crazy. Their father owned an Italian
restaurant most of her childhood, named Bobby
Cal’s, where one could find homemade food
made from family recipes. “I think watching my
dad in the restaurant all those years is where my
entrepreneurial spirit came from,” she recalls. Her
dad always told them as kids, “If you do something
you love, you will never work a day in your life.”
Autumn is especially passionate about
working with kids after her struggle as a preteen,
often being picked on for being chubby, she says,
“There are so many misconceptions out there
about what healthy is; I wanted to be able to teach
people, show them that it does not have to be
complicated.” We spent time getting to know the
fitness expert and hearing of the steps she took to
become just that.
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Their father instilled a strong work ethic and
a value of respect in his children from an early
age. He did this by putting them all to work at
the restaurant: sometimes it was as simple as
restocking the fridge or the chip rack, other times it
was helping prep the pizza dough by hand. Bobby
Cal’s has since closed and her father now works as
a bus driver.
Active as a child, she spent most of her time
outside playing with siblings and cousins. She
fondly remembers riding bikes, playing tag and >>>